[8/29 00:00] Federal judge rules Pentagon's "supply chain risk" designation of Anthropic illegal and vacates it / Andreessen Horowitz raises $1.1B "Machine Age Fund" for AI hardware infrastructure

AI News Flash for August 29, 2026 at 00:00 UTC.

Topics: 1. Federal judge rules Pentagon's "supply chain risk" designation of Anthropic illegal and vacates it https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/anthropic-gets-its-first-court-win-over-the-pentagons-supply-chain-risk-label/ 2. Andreessen Horowitz raises $1.1B "Machine Age Fund" for AI hardware infrastructure https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/28/andreessen-horowitz-raises-1-1b-ai-infrastructure-fund/ 3. Meta tests data center maintenance robots; technicians fear up to 80% of some roles could go https://decrypt.co/376843/meta-tests-robots-data-center 4. Google auto-expands AI Overviews for some searches, pushing links further down https://www.theverge.com/tech/986364/google-search-ai-overviews-auto-expand 5. X says it found a 200,000-account Chinese bot farm with 200 accounts targeting the US data center debate; researcher says no one saw them https://www.businessinsider.com/x-chinese-bots-data-center-debate-no-engagement-followers-2026-8